Being a queer or trans person of color is hard anywhere, but can feel especially isolating if you’re living in Seattle, WA. A heavily fractured city that is undergoing massive gentrification. Darqness, an electronic music collective, is working to dismantle that and bring QTPOC together. Producer Ellie Lightfoot, a Seattle native, spent the last year with this seven-person crew to find out why these parties are so necessary.

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Produced by Ellie Lightfoot with Mitra Kaboli. Editorial advising by Julia Alsop and Lilly Sullivan. Fact checking by Max Pearl.